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An initiative so feared that China has stopped saying its name
The Economist
China | The Voldemort of economic plans
“Made in China 2025” has been a success, but at what cost?
LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT from Harry Potter, “Made in China 2025” is an initiative which induces so much fear and loathing abroad that Chinese officials dare not speak its name. The plan, introduced a decade ago, called for pouring money and resources into dozens of industries. The goal was to turn China into a green and innovative “manufacturing power”, one that relied less on labour and Western supply chains, and more on automation and new home-grown technologies. This was Xi Jinping’s vision for the Chinese economy.
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I literally laughed out loud, like a harsh sort of howling laugh, when I read “LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT”
Literally right off the bat, too, lmao
And right after “But at what cost?”
China: Suffering from Success
JK Rowling was a mistake
AK Yearling > JK Rowling
There’s no way they still use the “but at what cost?” not ironically. That has to be an internal joke by now.
China was mentioned in a meeting at my tech bro job the other day and some guy that I’m cordial with messaged me privately “BUT AT WHAT COST”. So I think oh this guy is dog whistling at me that he is actually a China enjoyer, so I test that out by being like “yeah it would be great to work with China” and he immediately launches into a serious tirade about how they’re fascists destroying the world.
So uh…no I think they actually do say this seriously. I couldn’t believe it
for real, there even was one mexican NGO ghoul saying it in Spanish during an interview, it’s like these people have a script.
“But at what cost” is the West’s trigger phrase for having their citizens imagine horrible things, get mad at their imagination, skim the article which confirms their imagination, and then go about their day like nothing happened.
The Voldemort of economic plans
Holy shit lmao get the fuck outta here
This is just what happens you ask ChatGPT to generate an economist article.
Even tho op prefaced this in title, I still did not believe LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT was article text. My brain slid over that, assumed it was a little joke by op. Never. NEV-ER woulda believed. It’s just… too on the nose.
And it’s literally the first three words LMAO
literal infants
Reactionaries really are children. It should have been obvious ever since they decided human extinction from climate change is worth it for the treats.
This reads like something that was generated by an AI trained solely on satirical Hexbear posts.
You’ve heard buttery males
now introducing
butta wocus
A lesser lib would have put “green and innovative” in quotation marks because they believe China is not actually green and innovative. Putting “manufacturing power” in quotation marks is a level of liberalism that is physically unsafe for the human brain.
Americans still haven’t shut the fuck up about going to the moon so they can’t conceive of a government doing something successfully and then not talking about it
haaaa couldn’t even get past the first sentenceMillenials can’t get past the first sentence without doing a harry potterism.
Quick, someone roll out the Lenin quote about the Economist
Nah, I’d be specific.
The position of the aristocracy of finance is most strikingly depicted in a passage from its European organ, the London Economist.
Marx, the 18th brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
Sometimes I forget just how old these institutions really are.
I’m not surprised, but that’s certainly new trivia for me. Absolutely deplorable, morally bankrupt, thoroughly liberal in all the inhumane ways imaginable.
sometimes I do wonder whether the sentiment goes a bit too far, whether it would be more fair to wish something like “a minor drop in circulation” or “a financially burdensome libel suit” on our London competitor.
But then I remember what The Economist actually is, and what it stands for, and what it writes. And I realize that death is the only option.
Oh my, it’s like this piece was written just for me imma grab a cuppa and dig the fuck in. Thank you
I’m convinced the Libs are being cheeky with the Harry Potter references now, they saw us making fun of them for it and now they’re “owning it”.
Fine. I will edit a chapter of my magic college novel today
Oh my God please let me believe you’re fr working on a fanfic “hogwarts but college” spinoff. With Ron as a secret death eater (of course)
I’m afraid not. It’s an OC project. “Guy goes to magic community college and struggles to afford tuition.” So he and his friends go on misadventures to try and scrape enough money together all the while he becomes increasingly upset with the capitalist society they inhabit.
is there some explanation for why wizards need money at all
No, but there’s headcanon and yet to be integrated bits. Which, in an OC, just means I forgot to write it into the rough draft. That was one of the first insights my critique group gave me, funnily enough.
A lot of mages aren’t in the business of adventuring or creating 12th level spells on their floating islands to become gods. A lot of them, especially in Giliblanc, the home country of the MC, are more integrated into conventional society. For example, at an introductory performance at the college, there’s a mage who graduated and went on to pioneer “Internal Fighting Systems Therapy” (a play on Internal Family Systems where one might talk to their inner child).
“You essentially break down your mental landscape into subpersonalities. You characterize them, imagine them, and talk to them. Once you’re at the end of your session, she will cast a simulacra of the subpersonality and give you guidance on how best to use martial arts to beat it in combat.”
Others go on to be engineers, crafters, researchers, and notably members of the military. Seldom do people go off on adventures. Anybody is capable of learning the craft of magic as it is a pervasive field just like the electromagnetic field, but only a small subsection of the population ever get into particle physics and develop a relationship with electrons.
I’m so sick of these articles. They never deliver. The cost is $14.99, plus shipping ubless you spend $45. Why can’t their expert researchers find it out thenselves?
Don’t even get me started on “how many roads must a man walk down?”
“Like Lord Voldemort…” and this is where I stopped reading that fecal matter written by billionaire bootlickers.
